swing bridge | https://www.kjhorn.com Fri, 15 Mar 2024 23:41:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.9 https://www.kjhorn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-cropped-LOGO-32x32.png swing bridge | https://www.kjhorn.com 32 32 Swing refelction https://www.kjhorn.com/product/swing-refelction/ https://www.kjhorn.com/product/swing-refelction/#respond Sun, 18 Nov 2018 15:19:29 +0000 http://www.kjhorn.com/?post_type=product&p=550 The Swing Bridge and the High Level Bridge reflected into the River Tyne.

The post Swing refelction first appeared on .]]> The Swing Bridge is a located over the River Tyne, connecting Newcastle and Gateshead, and lying between the Tyne Bridge and the High Level Bridge (Shown in the background). The Swing Bridge is a grade II listed structure.

The hydraulic Swing Bridge was designed and paid for by William Armstrong, with work beginning in 1873. It was first used for road traffic on 15 June 1876 and opened for river traffic on 17 July 1876. At the time of construction it was the largest swing bridge ever built. The construction cost was £240,000.

The hydraulic power still used to move the bridge is today derived from electrically driven pumps. These feed a hydraulic accumulator sunk into a 60 ft (18 m) shaft below the bridge; the water is then released under pressure which runs the machinery to turn the bridge. The mechanism used for this is still the same machinery originally installed by Armstrong.

It has an 281 ft (85.6 m) cantilevered span with a central axis of rotation able to move through 360° to allow vessels to pass on either side of it.

The busiest year of operation was 1924 when the bridge was rotated 6,000 times unlike current use where it is only required to turn occasionally to allow yachts and pleasure craft to pass by and on the first Wednesday of each month as a maintenance exercise.

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The post Tyne View first appeared on .]]> A view down the River Tyne from the High Level Bridge in Newcastle on an October evening

The post Tyne View first appeared on .]]> https://www.kjhorn.com/product/tyne-view/feed/ 0 Northern Pride https://www.kjhorn.com/product/northern-pride/ https://www.kjhorn.com/product/northern-pride/#respond Sun, 07 Oct 2018 11:49:53 +0000 http://www.kjhorn.com/?post_type=product&p=409 The world famous Tyne Bridge

The post Northern Pride first appeared on .]]> What in the North of England is more iconic or recognisable than the Tyne Bridge.

The bridge was designed by the engineering firm Mott, Hay and Anderson and built by Dorman Long and Co. of Middlesbrough. The Bridge was officially opened on October 10 1928 by His Majesty King George V.

Wherever you may be in the world all you have to do is look at this magnificent piece of Engineering and you will forever have a little piece of home.

 

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